Since our last update article, we have made quite a bit of progress on John’s Little House! After going under roof in November '02, the Little House made it through the hard winter in this part of Western Maryland. They say they had 47 inches of snow during the weekend of 2/15/2003!!!

On April 7, I met Ron Sootsman (DJH 1823) and we spent the week working on the Little House. Here is Ron finishing the installation of 1 of 6 windows that he built using authentic sashes bought locally last November. He used spruce boards from a fallen spruce tree at the village for the window frames. None of the original window material from the Little House was available, so we used authentic materials and construction. 

Thanks, Ron!!

We installed original 4x8 beams as you see from the Little House. Cleaned up these beams with a power washer and pulled nails. All these beams were exactly 15 feet - 8 inches long, so we had calculated the width of the house so we did not have to cut any of these beams on installation. They fit into the beam pocket like your hand in a glove.

 
Installed 4x8 beams and used original flooring for part of the floor above. We need to purchase authentic flooring to complete the second floor. The underside of the floor will be exposed to the first floor.

 

Looking at the stairwell opening from the second floor. The stair construction will be on a later trip. This will be a close fit with a landing in the corner and a short set of stairs running up the rear wall of the house..

More Pictures of construction